Under a DACA amnesty, American taxpayers would be left with a $26 billion bill. About one in five DACA illegal aliens, after an amnesty, would end up on food stamps, while at least one in seven would go on Medicaid. Since DACA’s inception under Obama, more than 2,100 illegal aliens have been kicked off the program after it was revealed that they were either criminals or gang members. JOHN BINDER

Saturday, May 27, 2017

"Another Amazon worker added, “If something unexpected comes up, an illness or something needing repaired, then that’s it for you. The wages suffice to barely survive, if even for that, and even then it is difficult."

Striking Amazon workers in Germany support call for international
cooperation

By our correspondents
27 May 2017

Workers at
Amazon distribution centers in Bad Hersfeld went on strike yesterday. Workers
have been resisting ruthless exploitation and low wages at the online sales
giant for years.

Around 1,000
workers in Bad Hersfeld work at FRA1, the oldest distribution center in
Germany, and an additional 2,000-2,200 work at FRA3, which is located on the
so-called Amazon Road. Around 100 striking workers gathered at the entrance in
the early morning, and 40 departed by bus to Frankfurt to participate in a day
of action by retail workers in the state of Hesse, organized by the Verdi trade
union.

Amazon is
known for its brutal

methods of exploitation and workflow,

which is organized
down to the last

detail. It is also notorious for the harsh

treatment of anyone
who complains.

Many striking workers therefore did

not want to speak on camera
about

their working conditions. “I am on the

verge of being fired,” was a
common

refrain.

Thomas, is a
“picker,” the name given by Amazon to workers who locate ordered goods in the
huge storerooms. He said that he walks between 20 and 30 kilometers each day.
“When I take goods from the lower shelf, I have to bend my knees, often go down
on my knees,” he said. Even being in good physical fitness cannot assist in
such a situation.

Andrea has worked
for Amazon for nine years and earns about €2,000 per month before tax, “and
that is only because I have been employed here longer than 24 months,” she
said. New hires earn much less. “That is €24,000 per year!” said Andrea. By
comparison, Amazon owner Jeff Bezos “is the second richest man in the world. He
‘earns’ $24,000 within a minute,” she said.

Andrea
recalled how company management had previously said that there was no money for
higher wages because the company would make a loss. “But what about now?” she
asked. Profits are exploding today. “We do not participate in the profits,” she
added.

Andrea also
explained how Amazon “justified” the low wages. “Amazon hires us all as
trainees. Yet many of us are trained professionals.” She had trained as a retail
saleswoman, with a focus on storage and logistics. “But that is not required.
So you run around here as a trainee for years.”

The massive pressure on workers was clear to see on Friday
morning. It was barely possible for workers who were not striking to speak as
they went to work. However, almost all took the WSWS flyer introducing
the International
Amazon Workers Voice. Some were reluctant at first, but took it
after campaigners informed them that it was not associated with Verdi, which is
known for organizing a series of one-day strikes that have no impact on company
operations.

Carl was
formerly a US soldier and stationed in Germany until 1992. He began to work at
Amazon in 1999 when it opened its first storage and distribution center in Bad
Hersfeld. Prior to that, he worked as a gardener and landscaper, and he also
worked in arms manufacturing and security.

Since his
health had been ruined by the decades of labor, Carl spoke out vehemently
against the “health bonus” introduced by Amazon management at several German
stores. Bad Hersfeld has not yet introduced this system. According to this
system, part of the bonus payment is linked to the absentee rate of an entire
department. If one worker is absent due to illness, all workers lose out.

The obvious
goal of this measure is to encourage workers to check on their colleagues and
put them under pressure. “I have to go to the hospital twice a year, sometimes
for a long period,” Carl said. “Should the entire department lose out because
of that?”

Dave, who
has worked in the returns department since 2011, said that he is also opposed
to the system. It is merely a “scheme to get workers to turn up to work,” he
said. Workers drag themselves to work when they are ill, for example when they
have a cold, and infect more workers. “It just makes the whole thing worse,” he
said. He hoped that the works council would manage to block the “health bonus”
in Bad Hersfeld.

Jens
explained the perfidious system to us on the sidelines of the demonstration in
Frankfurt. A trained retail salesman, Jens has worked for Amazon for seven
years. The group bonus is designed to work so that “if five people are selected
from the department, and one of them is ill, then the entire department gets no
bonus, everyone suffers as a result. This is not only a lottery, but also makes
a fool of the workers.”

Jens said he
knew one worker who forced herself to come to work even though she was ill.
“She had a breakdown at Amazon and later died. That shows exactly where this
type of thing leads.”

Another
Amazon worker added, “If something

unexpected comes up, an illness or something

needing repaired, then that’s it for you. The wages

suffice to barely survive,
if even for that, and even

then it is difficult.”

Many workers
from different retail and online companies took part in the demonstration at
Frankfurt. They were very interested to learn of conditions at Amazon, and
almost all took the flyer introducing the International Amazon Workers Voice.
Many spoke about similar working conditions.

Raffaela,
who works on the check-outs at Karstadt, has had experiences with several
retail companies: “I think Amazon is terrible. But even at Real it can happen
that a note is taken if someone doesn’t work fast enough. Then he is at risk of
being taken into the office and cited.”

Elke K.
works at Real in Wiesbaden. After being informed about the Amazon flyer, she
said that international cooperation against such a company was extremely
important. “These conditions are really unsustainable, it reminds me of
Bangladesh,” she said. “What amount of pressure must it be when people have to
walk 20 kilometres per day.” Elke explained how she knew many colleagues who
still had to go to the welfare office, despite working full-time and overtime
hours, to top up their income and pay rent. “What a perfidious system!”

Marco, a
Karstadt salesman, was horrified to learn that workers in Scotland lived in
tents because they could not afford the travel to their work or a nearby
apartment. “Hard to believe that something like that is possible in a modern
industrial state.”

Gabriele
added, “The suggestion to cooperate internationally is interesting. Companies
have long since acted internationally and outsource operations to the Czech
Republic or Poland and play us off against each other. And the trade unions
offer only recipes within the national framework.”

Meanwhile in
Bad Hersfeld, Amazon workers at the midday shift change spoke to the WSWS. They
have to deal with the fact that many colleagues are not participating in a
strike called by Verdi. One reason for this is that there is no grounds for
workers to believe that Verdi will represent and fight for their interests.
Verdi has been organizing one-day, isolated strikes against Amazon for years.

The trade
union is pursuing entirely different goals to the workers. The Verdi trade
union is calling for an additional €1 per hour for workers in the retail and
online sales sector. But at Amazon, the issue remains one of securing any kind
of collective agreement. The world’s largest online sales company has refused
to recognize any contract.

With its
demand for a collective agreement, Verdi hopes to be recognized by Amazon and
cooperate with the company as a partner. This ultimately amounts to jointly
organizing the exploitation of workers. Verdi already sits on the supervisory
boards of many companies, including Lufthansa, Karstadt and the rail company
Deutsche Bahn.

Workers said
they could only fight the company by being organized as an international force.
Carl said, “We can all secure more if we are all united. Not only in a state or
federally, but on an international level.” This is why the Sozialistische
Gleichheitspartei and its sister parties internationally have established the
International Amazon Workers Voice. This newsletter will be international, both
in its form and political content. It will link the struggles of workers around
the world in a common struggle against the company and the capitalist system.

Ex-worker: I was close to
heatstroke and Amazon forced me to keep working

By
our reporters

29 May 2017

Hundreds of Amazon workers havesigned upfor
theInternational Amazon Workers Voicenewsletter in recent days. Workers
continue to send in their horror stories of exploitation, and workers in
fulfillment centers in North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa
are discussing the need for an international strategy to fight back.

Here is what workers are saying:

Amazon to worker on verge of heatstroke: keep working

Amazon tries to keep the lid on scenes like this one, described by
an ex-Amazon worker who feared he would die on the job.

“I worked there [for Amazon] for a year and I was treated like
complete trash,” the young worker said. “One day I actually got really bad heat
exhaustion from there when I was trying to keep myself hydrated. I was on water
bottle number seven by lunchtime and that still wasn’t cutting it. Everyone agreed
at my fulfillment center that it was hotter than usual, and the managers
weren’t doing anything about it.”

The company only cared about shipping its goods and making profit.

The worker continued, “I almost passed out while rebinning. I was
taken to Amcare [the company medical team] and was told I was only allowed
there for 20 minutes because I had to get back on the floor when they knew I
was getting very close to having a heat stroke. They even said I was very close
to having a heat stroke. So I left Amazon that night and never returned because
I felt like my life was more important than dying at the job. If I died there
that night I would be number four on the list of people who died while working
at my fulfillment center, and I didn’t want that.”

“Why not share the benefits of industrial progress, instead of
accepting our fate as slaves for the rich?”

One former warehouse worker in the UK explained: “I worked in a
warehouse in Manchester as a picker for XPO/Missguided under conditions very
similar to those recounted by Amazon workers. Workers were demeaned with a
barrage of dictatorial policies and pushed to the limit of physical and mental
endurance. A few workers passed out due to overexertion.”

The worker continued, “Why shouldn’t society share equally the
benefits of productive development? After all, it was the workers who built the
warehouses, and the means of production and operations, not Bezos. Why not
share the benefits of industrial progress, instead of accepting our fate as
slaves for the rich? The social condition today is appalling and given the
productive forces available, entirely medieval.”

No to nationalism! Unite Amazon workers across the world!

One worker in the UK messaged theInternational
Amazon Workers Voiceto
report stressful and dangerous conditions at their facility. The worker thanked
the IAWV for exposing Bezos’ wealth, but said that part of the problem is that
English workers are mistreated while Polish workers are favored.

TheInternational Amazon Workers Voiceresponded:

“The rich want you to compete with workers of different national
origins so that all workers don’t unite and fight the real enemy: the rich. We
are socialists, that means we’re for the international unity of the working
class, regardless of national origin. English workers have much more in common
with workers from Poland than they do with David Cameron, and the Polish
workers have more in common with you than they do with Polish oligarchs, too.

“Imagine how much power Amazon workers would have if they united in
the US, UK, Poland, Germany, Mexico, China, Germany, India, and all over, in a
common struggle for social equality. Divided by nationality, the workers are
powerless. But united across the world, the working class is a powerful force
that can change the course of history.”

The worker responded with a “thumbs-up.”

Amazon workers, if you have stories to share, sign-up for ournewsletterand
send them in the comments field. We keep all sources anonymous to protect from
arbitrary firing.

Amazon ordered employee to
work despite heatstroke risk, sought to cover up incident

By Eric London
30 May 2017

A former Amazon worker who nearly suffered heatstroke and was
ordered by the company to keep working told theInternational Amazon Workers Voicethat
Amazon ignored reports of the incident to avoid blame and deny her access to
medical attention.

On a sweltering hot summer day in 2016, a young “picker” named
Nicole was working on the floor of Amazon’s fulfillment center in Chester,
Virginia. Although workers requested that management turn up the air
conditioning, Nicole said the company refused. When she nearly passed out,
Amazon gave her just 20 minutes of rest and then ordered her back on the floor.
The company knew that medical officials warned she could suffer potentially
fatal heatstroke.

To this day, Nicole explained, she has been unable to seek medical
attention because the corporation ignored a report she filed of the incident.

Amazon workers are familiar with this type of brutal treatment by
a corporate giant that prioritizes private profit above the lives of its
workers. This is the rule under capitalism: corporations like Amazon cut costs
by sacrificing workers’ health to improve the profit margin and enrich the
corporate leadership.

“When I made a report about my incident,” Nicole told the IAWV, “I
found out they never did my report because they didn’t want to get into
trouble. How I found out was I called the Amazon hotline for employees to see
if there was a report made so I could go see a doctor about my current
condition, and they said they had no report on my incident when I made one. I
wanted to because it was a work place accident. And they didn’t want to help
me.”

Because the company ignored her report, Nicole said she couldn’t
file a workers’ compensation claim or bring a lawsuit against the company for
the abuse she said she suffered.

After the incident, Nicole decided that the $12.50 an hour she
made was not worth the risk of suffering from the intense heat on the shop
floor. But instead of firing her, the company sent her a letter claiming she
left the company through “voluntary resignation due to job abandonment.”
Because of this, she was ineligible to collect unemployment benefits.

Out of a job and still feeling the effects of the incident, Nicole
says she began to have difficulty being outside during the daytime for long
periods of time. Though she has finally found new work, she hasn’t seen a
doctor despite ongoing side effects because of the high cost of health care in
the US. She fears her health will never be the same.

“Ever since I left Amazon I have been having problems with heat in
general,” she said. “I haven’t gotten medical attention for it because I had no
job and no health insurance. I loved being outside before, and now I can’t
enjoy the summertime as I used to. I am basically cursed because of them.”

Nicole is not alone. She described horrific conditions at the
Chester, Virginia fulfillment center, which was featured in a 2015 article,
“The Life and Death of an Amazon Warehouse Temp.”

“From what I have heard,” Nicole said, “one person had died from a
heart attack there. I also heard someone killed themselves by jumping from one
of the floors, and not quite sure about the other [deaths at the facility]. We
also had a lot of workplace injuries where ambulances were called.

“But no matter what circumstances we were under, management always
told us to keep working even if we were hurting. They told us to take some
painkillers and get back to work.”

Nicole said it is hard to find news articles of many of the
deaths, since Amazon “keeps that under wraps because they don’t want people to
know so they can get people to work for them.” She added, “They don’t like us
talking about it.”

Despite these conditions, some workers drive from as far away as
North Carolina to work at the Chester fulfillment center. Temporary workers
make $10 an hour, and many other workers at the facility make $12.

“I am for the cause,” she said. “I am all for uniting to show
Amazon that they need to listen to how they are treating their people. We work
far too hard. I want Amazon to do better or be shut down. I hate seeing my
friends being worked to the very core to the point of almost disabling
themselves. I don’t want anyone to go through what I am going through right
now. I can’t even go to amusement parks which are my favorite places without
having a threat of heatstroke.”

She said she would share theIAWVwith her friends who still work at the
facility and encouraged other workers across the world to step forward and
share their stories of abuse.

Amazon workers:contactthe
IAWV today and help expose Amazon’s exploitation of the working class. We
protect anonymity and don’t use names without your approval.Sign-upto receive updates, “like” the IAWV on
Facebook,and share this article with your coworkers.

In
California, illegals can vote: it’s possible and very likely. California’s
automatic motor-voter law all but assures that illegals seeking driver’s
licenses will get a ballot along with their license.

Miscreants
from any corner of the world can register to vote in California online, too. No
vetting, no assurance, no integrity.

Voter
fraud in broken inner city hellholes like Detroit and New York City cannot
compare with the ballot stuffing throughout the once Golden State.

CALIFORNIA UNDER MEXCIAN OCCUPATION

California: The sick man of the United States…. A
STATE UNDER MEX OCCUPATION!

“The lifetime costs of Social Security and Medicare
benefits of illegal immigrant beneficiaries of President Obama’s executive amnesty
would be well over a trillion dollars, according to Heritage Foundation expert Robert
Rector’s prepared testimony for a House panel obtained in advance by Breitbart
News.”

EL TRUMPO SURRENDERS TO THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA….
Obama’s amnesty handed to them on a silver platter.

Trump quietly doubling number of refugees entering U.S.

President Trump has decided to double the number of refugees admitted every week, but hasn't made a major announcement about it. Why not? Won't that help make America great again?

Despite repeated efforts by President Trump to curtail refugee resettlements, the State Department this week quietly lifted the department’s restriction on the number of refugees allowed to enter the United States.

The result could be a near doubling of refugees entering the country, from about 830 people a week in the first three weeks of this month to well over 1,500 people per week by next month, according to refugee advocates. Tens of thousands of refugees are waiting to come to the United States.

The State Department’s decision was conveyed in an email on Thursday to the private agencies in countries around the world that help refugees manage the nearly two-year application process needed to enter the United States.

Although it came the same day as an appeals court ruling that rejected government efforts to limit travel to the United States from six predominantly Muslim nations, the move by the State Department had nothing to do with the court ruling.

Refugee groups now predict that entries into the United States could increase so rapidly that the total number of refugees admitted by Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year, could exceed 70,000. That is well below the 84,994 refugees admitted in fiscal year 2016, but not by nearly as much as many advocates had feared.

Refugee advocates were delighted by the State Department’s decision.

Many of those refugees are coming from unvettable countries like Syria.

Questions for discussion:

1) Is admitting refugees from unvettable countries part of "Putting America First?"

2) If a refugee whom Trump admits to the U.S. later kills some Americans, will Trump supporters say it could have been worse because at least Hillary Clinton wasn't the one to admit them?

3) If Trump truly believes in security for our nation, can you think of any rational reason why he is doing this?

DESTROY AMERICA TO BUILD A MUSLIM-STYLE DICTATORSHIP WHERE LA RAZA MEXICANS VOTE HIM PRESIDENT FOR LIFE

"He is intent on maximizing the damage he inflicted on the country during the two terms of his faux presidency, having now set up shop in Washington to pursue a post-presidency agenda advancing a left-wing insurgency, civil unrest, racialconflict and the destabilizing activities of a shadow."

Trump’s $1.6 Billion Budget for Border Walls — Mostly for South Texas

President Donald Trump’s 2018 budget asks Congress to construct 60 miles of new border walls along the U.S./Mexico border – all of which would be located in Texas.

The plan is for theRio Grande Valley Sectorto receive 32 miles of a new border wall, and 28 miles of a new levee wall. The levee in Hidalgo County is designed to address flooding. The budget refers to the new border wall as “a physical wall.”

Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said, “We are absolutely dead serious about the wall.” He called it one of President Trump’s “top three” budget priorities,reportedBreitbart News on Tuesday. Mulvaney denied that the administration wasscaling backfunding for border walls by saying the Trump administration’s budget was a striking hike from the 2017 budget. The 2018 budget increases allocations for border security by $1.1 billion, and $1.5 billion for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The director of the Office of Management and Budget also urged Trump voters to be patient and said this proposed action was a beginning for a project that will be protracted. “Keep in mind; you can’t just … you don’t automatically magically build a wall in the middle of nowhere,” the director stated.

The budget for the U.S. Department of Justice also asks for $1.8 million to “meet litigation, acquisition, and appraisal demands during the construction along the border between Mexico and the United States.” Breitbart News reported that the funds would be used to hire 12 attorneys and eight staff members for the section of the DOJ that defends litigation arising from eminent domain proceedings (the Environmental and Natural Resources Division’s Land Acquisition Section, “LAS”).

Those who are fighting the construction of border walls are mostly on partisan lines. Democratic U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) said “Putting taxpayers on the hook to pay for it is just the latest brick in a wall of broken campaign promises. If we are going to pour billions into concrete, it ought to be an investment in ourselves, rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure,”reportedDallas’ WBAP 820 AM on Thursday. However, landowners in Texas say they will fight mightily to keep their property, and they hope the litigation will be protracted beyond any Trump administration tenure. TheNew York Timesreportalso said there are more than 90 eminent domain lawsuits from landowners in South Texas and they have been pending since 2008.

The Dallas radio station reported that Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) who serves as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration said, “If we really want to secure our borders, and I think the voters in this last presidential election indicated they did, we must be willing to devote the necessary level of funding to achieve it.”

Bob Priceserves as associate editor and senior political news contributor for Breitbart Texas. He is a founding member of the Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook.

TEXAS
GOV FIGHTS BACK LA RAZA MEX OCCUPATION!

WHY
ARE ILLEGALS ABOVE THE LAW?

SANCTUARY
CITIES and SANCTUARY STATE of CALIFORNIA: The LA RAZA welfare state on our
backs!

“While
the Obama Administration downplays violence along the U.S.-Mexico border,
authorities in Texas reveal that Mexican have transformed parts of the state
into a war zone where shootings, beheadings, kidnappings and murders are
common.

Lose your base, Mr. President, and you will be a one-term
president. There is no art of the deal in which you can maintain their trust
and confidence while giving way to congressional Democrats and Republicans who
are catering to those employers and middlemen, who don't believe in your agenda
anyway, and who will in the end drop you like a hot potato at the first sign of
trouble. The warning signs are already there, are they not?